Planets by Fwooph Studios

Fly straight up out of your world into space, find real planets floating in the sky, and land on them. Hoth and Kashyyyk are fully built worlds of their own, each with a huge hand-designed landmark to explore: Echo Base, the Rebel base dug into Hoth's mountains, and Kachirho, the Wookiee tree city from Revenge of the Sith, plus Chewbacca's home town Rwookrrorro and the giant Origin Tree.

Everything is made of Minecraft-style blocks, with no loading screens between worlds and no portals: you just keep flying.

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Space

• Fly above Y 300 in the Overworld and you're in space. The sky turns black, thousands of stars and a galaxy band come out, and Earth hangs below you as a giant blocky planet.
• You can fly freely in space (creative-style flight with low gravity), so even survival players can explore it.
• Asteroids drift around with ores inside them, so space is worth mining, not just crossing.
• The planets are visible from space and grow as you fly toward them. A display in the corner tells you how far away each one is.
• Flying into a planet takes you there. The screen glows and shakes as you hit the atmosphere, then you drop into that planet's world with Slow Falling. Fly high enough on a planet to leave it again, then fly down into Earth to go home.

Hoth: the ice planet

The world: snow plains, frozen wastes, glacial ridges with ice spikes, frozen seas and ice-lined caves. Blizzards come and go with whiteout fog and blowing snow, and three moons rise at night.

The cold is a real survival challenge. Outside you slowly freeze, and nights and blizzards are worse. To survive you can:

• stand near a campfire, fire, lava, magma or a lit furnace
• wear leather armor (each piece slows freezing; a full set makes you immune)
• ride a tauntaun, which keeps you warmer

Creatures:

• Wampas: big, tough ice monsters with 60 health. They hit hard, can slow you, live in ice caves, and hunt both you and tauntauns.
• Tauntauns: snow lizards you can tame like a horse and ride with a saddle. Feed them wheat, apples, hay, berries or fish, and breed them with golden carrots or apples.

Echo Base: a straight flight from Earth lands you right at its doors. It's over a kilometre of base carved into a mountain. Inside you'll find:

• two hangars with X-wings, snowspeeders, a freighter and a GR-75 transport, all built from blocks
• the command centre, medical bay with bacta tanks, reactor and barracks
• stables, a wampa pen, quarters and sensor rooms
• an ion cannon outside, with trenches, turrets and shield generators on the battlefield
• about 80 Rebel crew members who go about their jobs and talk to you when you right-click them

Kashyyyk: the Wookiee homeworld

The world: a warm planet of giant wroshyr trees up to about 400 blocks tall, with a sea full of jungle-topped limestone towers like the ones the film shot in Thailand and China.

Its forests are layered like the real thing:

• mossy trunks hung with vines, and broad crowns dripping moss
• a dim floor of ferns, fallen logs, boulders and small trees
• glowing mushrooms and carnivorous plants in the shade

Inland, the land rises into knife-edged green ridges. The shallow sea has seagrass meadows and coral reefs.

Kachirho: a straight flight from Earth brings you down over its bay. Four great trees rise from a lagoon, ringed with platforms all the way up. You'll find:

• spiral ramps up each tree, round Wookiee huts and a landing pad
• rope bridges between the trees
• boardwalks, docks with moored catamarans, and a carved hall in the foot of the great tree
• two limestone massifs framing the bay, with water spilling down their faces

Rwookrrorro: Chewbacca's home town, a city on a huge deck high in a tangle of giant trees. It has:

• streets of huts around a plaza, the chieftain's hall with a throne, and a nursery ring around one tree
• a hangar inside a hollowed-out branch
• a metal spaceport with a control tower at the end of the Great Walkway
• rope lifts down to the dark, swampy forest floor far below

The Origin Tree: the tallest tree on the planet, in a basin ringed by sheer limestone cliffs.

• A waterfall pours into Origin Lake, and a ruined village rots on the shore.
• Walk in through a glowing root passage, then climb a spiral path inside the hollow trunk all the way up to the Chieftain's Canopy and its shrine, a Wookiee rite of passage.
• A giant bird's nest sits out on one of its branches.

People and creatures:

• About 130 friendly Wookiees across the three places, who answer you in Shyriiwook with the meaning in brackets
• Wyyyschokk: big forest spiders
• Kinrath: packs that leave you alone unless you attack one, and then the whole pack answers with a poison sting
• Mykal: flying predators that circle and dive, and don't burn in daylight
• Tach: small animals you can breed with apples or berries

An on-screen guide points the way to Kachirho, Rwookrrorro and the Origin Tree.

Ships (optional)

With Create Aeronautics, Sable and Dimensional Sable installed, whole ships (and everyone standing on them) can fly up into space and down onto the planets. In space ships are weightless and the air is thin: propellers are weak, but thrusters work.

Commands and settings

• /outerrim where shows how far the planets are, or how high to fly to reach space.
• /outerrim go space | hoth | kashyyyk | rwookrrorro | origintree | earth jumps straight there (needs cheats/op).
• Per-world settings (exit heights, space flight, re-entry Slow Falling, Hoth freezing, ship travel) are in serverconfig/outerrim-server.toml, and servers send them to players automatically. You can turn freezing off if you use another temperature mod such as Cold Sweat.

Good to know

• Use a new world. The planets' landmarks generate along with the terrain, so worlds made before you installed the mod (or before an update) won't have them in areas you've already visited.
• Works in single player and on servers.
• New building blocks from the planets (wroshyr wood, carved panels, lanterns, Hoth base panels and more) are in the creative inventory.